Happy Valentine's Day..

Helena and I tried to create a few little goodies..

I'm about 95 % unpacked and the last five percent is pretty much craft stuff..

I have to arrange and rearrange my art supplies..

kind of like a dog that is turning in circles

until it finds just the right position to lie down in, haha!

 

Helena made a couple of coloring book pages.

 

 

 

& this wooden heart to hang on the wall in my favorite color..sunset.

I made this sweet little conversation heart devil.

This next one, isn't brand new, but I think she goes well with today's theme.

'Let's all be unicorns' is felted and stands on a jar of "candy".

I made some coconut flour biscuits to have with our Valentine's Day Spaghetti dinner tonight.

They are super simple!

You need 1/2 cup of coconut flour

1/4 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 cup of butter

4 large eggs

mix it all together

drop by quarter cup onto a greased pan

bake for 20 minutes.

you can add sweetener or salt, depending on your preference.

I added a sprinkle of salt and about a half table spoon of garlic powder to these.

When they come out of the oven you can top them with shredded cheese.

 

The other night I wanted cookies, so I made them with two packets of stevia powder and a pinch of dark chocolate chips.

 Well, I think I'm about ready for bed..

We have a tradition of watching the film

Pontypool on Valentine's day,

plus it's Spanky's birthday..it's been a year that Helena got him!

So we are baking a cake and he's getting a new toy:)

 

I will stop by to visit you later tonight.

Have a beautiful night.

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."

Valentine's Day crafts

 

Here's a couple of projects I created for 

Valentine's day using Canvas Corp brands products.

the first one is a card.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Valentine keepsake box

 

supplies for the card:

vintage image

red scrapbook paper 

ruffled canvas trim

heart confetti

7gypsies lace trim

red flosss

needle

floral washi tape

pink glitter glue

pink marker

Canvas Corp scrapbook paper "sending love words on ivory"

Tattered Angels glimmer mist in festival Pink

glue stick

hot glue

two flocked hearts

 

Directions:

I made the card extra large...

fold a 12x12 sheet of scrapbook paper in half

spray with glimmer mist

once it's dry 

glue vintage image and love sayings to center of card

 add washi tape to edge of card

glue confetti to other edge using glue stick

stitch yarn through top pf lace scrap to gather into a skirt shape

hot glue it to the image 

add color accents with the pink marker

outline image with pink glitter glue

hot glue ruffled canvas trim to top and bottom of card

 add flocked hearts

 

Supplies for the keepsake box:

cigar box

pipe cleaners

angel wings

decorative tissue paper wooden curlicues

 Tattered Angels glimmer mist in festival Pink

Canvas Corp brand canvas flower

Canvas Corp brand scrapbook paper "sending love words on ivory"

glitter heart

glue gun

glue stick

pink acrylic paint

pink glitter glue

Directions:

spray entire box with Tattered Angels glimmer mist

Glue tissue paper to box lid

 spray glimmer mist on tissue

hot glue pipe cleaners to edges of the lid

paint curlicues pink and cover in pink glitter glue

attach them to the box with hot glue

glue the flocked heart to the canvas flower

glue the flower to the box, add wings and love saying.

Valentine's Day Fairies

It's Valentine's Day tomorrow!

In honor of this magical day I have created some sweet little fairy flower picks.

They're super easy to make too.

This is Thumbelina Teacup fairy

And this is Beatrice the honey bee fairy.

Supplies 'Thumbelina'

Baby Bailey unfinished doll

mini teacup and saucer

artificial flower petals and leaves

bamboo skewer 

pink tinsel

glitter

acrylic paint in peach, apricot, pink and teal

mini ribbon rose

large artificial daisy flower

hot glue gun and glue sticks

Directions

paint Baby Baliley  peach

add facial features with pink paint

paint on a teal shirt

add flower petals to create a skirt

glue on rose petal flower 

add hair with apricot paint

Glue on leaves to back of doll to form wings

hot glue tea cup to saucer 

add glue to the rim of the teacup, dip in glitter

glue doll to inside of teacup and sprinkle excess hot glue with glitter

remove the stem from the flower and replace it with the skewer

add a bit of hot glue to secure it

now hot glue teacup and saucer to top of flower

wind tinsel around skewer glue in place

Supplies 'Beatrice'

Baby Bailey unfinished doll

Glitter heart pick

artificial leaves

glitter

acrylic paints in peach, pink, yellow, orange, brown, black

gold tinsel trim

pink tinsel

white glue

hot glue gun and glue sticks

Directions

paint baby Bailey peach

add brown hair

add facial features with pink paint

paint stripes on body

add gold tinsel and leaves

cover leaves in white glue

sprinkle with glitter

hot glue Baby Bailey to top of heart

wind tinsel around stick

glue in place

add text with white glue

Tips

heart picks can be found at most dollar stores

these can be turned into St. Patrick's day fairies

Baby Bailey can be purchased in Lisa Kettell's Artfire shop.

Heart(s) of the ocean

Far off in the ocean where

the waters are a cool, clear blue

lives an amazing creature

named Halcyon.

She has long glittery hair and jewel encrusted tentacles.

 

Collecting heart shaped stones 

that she finds scattered along the ocean floor

is one of her favorite things to do.

If you happen to catch a glimpse of 

her sitting on a rock on nights when the moon is full

please be very quiet..she's shy.

 

 

 

 

 This is what you need to create the hearts of the ocean sailor's valentine

 

Supplies

Carnival Lulu mermaid cupie doll

wooden plaque

heart shaped acrylic jems

assorted sea shells

decorative scrapbook paper

paper clay or model magic

acrylic paints;green, dark blue, purple, pink, yellow

silver tinsel

glitter;black, purple, teal, magenta, silver

hot glue gun, glue sticks

white glue

Instructions

Create tentacles out of model magic, set aside to dry.

decoupage wooden plaque with scrapbook paper and white glue.

Remove Lulu's fin and paint her tail and tentacles dark blue, teal and purple.

attach her to the plaque with hot glue.

Glue her tentacles around her.

create flowing hair by attaching strips of model magic to Lulu's head.

when dry paint green and yellow.Cover in silver glitter.

Hot glue acrylic hearts and sea shells.

Attach silver tinsel around plaque with hot glue.

You can purchase the Carnival Lulu Mermaid Cupie here.

Be sure to check out Lisa Kettell's blog and awesome art fire shop

to find inspiration and amazing goodies to purchase!

Valentine's Day crafts

 

As soon as Christmas is over my thoughts are on Valentine's Day.

Pink hearts, dusky purple skies, 

chocolate covered cherries, red glitter...

I love it!

I thought I was getting better....

I was painting, creating dollies, 

working on the gypsy wagon, 

 hanging ice cream (that's another post altogether)

then,

SINUSITIS!

..........................

So my last post was delayed.

These are a couple of the creations I was working on while I was stuck recuperating .

 Found this cage at Michael's.

I used ink from a stamp pad to paint it

then crepe papered the bird and added glitter, of course:)

 The carnival Lulu doll from Lisa Kettell 

never fails to inspire me.

I just added some heart pics, trim and stamps.

I'm still not 100% yet, but I'm getting there, and oh man am I tired of being sick!

Meanwhile, the shops are filling up with red & pink

and that makes me happy.

I hope everyone is doing fine and YOU'RE feeling happy and healthy

in your corner of the world.

See you soon.

Swaps

Hello,
hope everyone is doing great.
First of all, I'd like to thank everyone that left me a comment on my last post, you all make blogging so worth it.
Before I get to announcing the winner I'd like to share a few pretties with you.
The Tucson Swap Queens had an envelope swap, the one I received was stuffed full of amazing goodies, from the lovely Alex Hardy but I opened it before I had a chance to photograph it....this is the one I made.

I also participated in The heart and flower Valentine swap hosted by Wendy from Bliss Angels and my partner was WENDY!!!She sent me one of her deliciously magical creations:

The beautiful card she created...

this is the tin I sent her,
The lid...

the inside,

Then!Linda from Olde Baggs 'n stuft shirts sent me this beautiful sweet smelling little sachet she made!For no reason, other than she's just an awesome lady, thank you so much Linda!

Once again I used a random number generator to choose a winner for my 2 years of blogging gift and the winner is #16...Kristin from Twinkle Twinkle.
Have a great week and thank you for stopping by.